Shortlist grows for the UK’s best new house

House Lessans, a sophisticated rural home in Northern Ireland built using the most basic of materials and, Secular Retreat, an enigmatic and sculptural home on a remote Devon hilltop – are the fifth and sixth homes to be shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2019.

The shortlisted homes were revealed in the third episode of a special four-part Channel 4 TV series – Grand Designs: House of the Year – broadcast on Wednesday 6 November. The full shortlist of seven homes will be revealed throughout the series, with the winner announced in the final episode, to be broadcast on Wednesday 13 November.